Forgive Us Our Debts (2018) on Netflix

Plot summary

Guido lives alone in a rundown apartment on the outskirts of Rome, with the professor next door as his only friend. The IT company he worked for has gone bankrupt, and the warehouse job he finds driving a forklift ends quickly. He passes his days at the neighborhood bar, where he keeps his feelings for Rina, the waitress, to himself. Four months behind on rent, he is beaten by a hired thug over what he owes. He visits the credit company and offers to settle his dues by working without pay. The manager pairs him, reluctantly, with Franco, a senior collector in the firm's debt recovery department, who teaches him to pressure borrowers into paying and to cancel loans in exchange for possessions their owners hold dear. With money coming in again, Guido grows more confident.